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self-killing

verb

Etymology

From self-kill + -ing.

  1. derived from kolla — “to hit on the head, harm”
  2. inherited from cwellan — “to kill, murder, execute”
  3. derived from *gʷelH-✻ — “to throw, hit, hurt by throwing”
  4. inherited from *kwuljaną✻
  5. inherited from *kwulljan✻
  6. inherited from *cyllan✻
  7. inherited from killen
  8. prefixed as self-kill — “self + kill”
  9. formed as self-killing — “self-kill + -ing”

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of self-kill

  2. The killing of oneself

    The killing of oneself; suicide.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for self-killing. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA